Intervention

Season 4, Episode 4, Aired
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When Ted is packing his stuff for his move to New Jersey, he discovers that the gang was going to hold an intervention for his engagement to Stella and demands they hold it anyway.
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  • The gang has an obsession with interventions.

    10
    "Perfect"
    By Jon_MW_14, Aug 22, 2011 Report Abuse
    "Intervention" is one of my favourite How I Met Your Mother episodes. It actually makes it in my Top 5 How I Met Your Mother episodes. I just find this whole episode entertaining. I love how the gang became obsessed with interventions. I love how they find their old intervention banner and they reminisce about their interventions. I love the one with Robin reenacting the great Vancouver Canucks in full hockey gear. I love the intervention of Stuart being an alcoholic and Barney comes in and offers him a drink. I love the interventions for Marshall's hats, Lily's fake British accent, Robin's tanning addiction, and Barney's magic trick. And I love how they had an intervention for having to many interventions. I love how Barney pretends to be an old man picking up young women and the gang has an intervention at the end of the episode for him. I give this episode a 10/10.moreless

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  • Moving day.

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    By Canogaparkcindy, May 02, 2010 Report Abuse
    Everyone starts packing up to embark a new chapter in their lives. Robin is moving to Japan for her job, Marshall & Lilly are moving in to their own apartment, and Ted is moving to New Jersey with Stella. This was a closing chapter in everybody's lives. But it's time for new beginnings for the gang. I loved the Intervention gag, everyone had their own reason for their intervention, that was hilarious. The Intervention gag develops when Ted finds old Intervention letters addressed to him regarding Stella. Basically, it said not to marry Stella and that Ted was moving too fast. Ted starts to doubt his actions and gets scared, and decides to stay in the apartment, which becomes a chain reaction for everybody else, when they all end up not wanting to move. Sooner or later, when they see Barney in his "old person" suit, they all decide they need to move out, they can't be scared, and they have to do this. Meanwhile Barney proves he will be exactly the same by the time he's 80 years old. By the end, they all decide to embark on the new chapter in their lives. Future Ted lets us know that a year from now, everybody will be living in the same apartment. Kind of a spoiler, but I guess we know things are going to go south with Stella. Robin's not leaving, and Marshall & Lilly will move back in a year from now. I sort of wish I didn't know that was going to happen, but I still enjoyed the episode. Great episode that made me nostalgic on the old HIMYM days.moreless

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  • This episode was just gold. Barney as usual was just hilarious. This is definately a MUST SEE!

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    By Hornets3, Aug 19, 2009 Report Abuse
    In packing up the apartment to move out for good, the gang starts to get cold feet. While sorting through old stuff, Ted discovers that at one point Marshall and Lily were going to stage an intervention to tell him not to marry Stella. After admitting they thought Ted and Stella were moving too quickly but now realize they were wrong, Ted then starts to question if maybe his relationship is moving too fast. His hesitation towards change then makes Marshall and Lily question whether they should move into their apartment, and Robin becomes uncertain about taking the job in Japan.moreless

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  • Ted!! No!! You never break up a girl fight! NEVER!!!

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    By dmccr, Oct 26, 2008 Report Abuse
    Neil Patrick Harris made me laugh so hard on the scene qhere he punches the wall that this episode is worth just by that scene.
    The episode is funny in general, Ted is packing to move in with Stella, Robin is going to Japan and Lilly and Marshall are moving out as well, only to realize that no one wants to move out, everybody wants to stay exactly where they are. And, as always, scenes are funny as well, the interventions were awesome, hilarious. It wasn't very moving forward plot wise, but hey, with comedic shows, i really don't care much about the story, i just want to laught as hard as i can.moreless

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  • Apartment Memories

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    By sh811a, Oct 19, 2008 Report Abuse
    Moving to a new place can be a painful experence sometimes because whereever you live, for however amount of time you always make memories, leaving them behind is really sad.

    This episode is good if not one of the best I'm still waiting for that episode that will give season 4 the umph it needs right now.

    There were a lot of funny moments in the episode, from Barney's current scheme which was real daft yet amazingly worked, that little subplot with him was really just a joke of the week but a good one as well as a plot device for latter.

    Though the real funny moments were in seeing what each little detail of the interior of the apartment ment. My favorate was the wall hole with Robin and Lily, when Robin downed one beer too many and takes her Canadian nationality a bit overboard, from the accent, hockey jersey, stick and puck with it. She executes a slap shot which could of made a hole in the wall if Lily hadn't caught the puck (supprised Lily wasn't a goalie). Robin gets riled up about it and picks a fight with Lily. Lily in turn gets riled up, and soon both actually fight. I though this was cool but unfortunately it only lasts one minute if Ted didn't get in the way (wuss). As we see it made Barney frustrated getting robbed of a girlfight and punch the hole in the wall.

    But of couse the real kicker was just in the interventions which are suppose to be a stopping point communication where friends would gather to express their feelings about a certain unplessent activity one is doing. One favorate of mine is Lily and her Brit accent.

    The current intervention this time was Ted marrying Stella. Marchall said exactly what my feelings were about it, I do feel Ted might be making a mistake. At first Ted is in slight denial but then he takes out something in one of his boxes and it triggers something that was dorment in him, the fear of leaving a place he's made so many great memories behind and fearing more he may be unable to make new ones that are a happy as the ones before. This freaking out episode triggers that same fear in his friends. I thought this was both funny and slightly emotional because even I'm wondering about the future for all of them. But all learn that the past is not forver and they have to accept these changes to make new memories, however they should never forget what brought them to those changes whcih was how all of them still had that bond together doing the same old thing years latter.

    The episode though is held back mainly from Lily and Robin not expressing their intervention opinions was I thought a copout scriptwise. But mainly I thoigh the resolution was a little fast, it was the same problem I had with the last episode. I know that Ted is suppose to learn a lesson but his full acceptance of it, I don't find entirely realistic. Despite this you don't forget what occured before it just demonstrates Ted I feel is ready for change but not yet as a saying goes there is a time and a place for everything.

    Transition from one place to the other is always painful and scarry but it's something we all have to do to make new memories someplace else.moreless

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    • The last time that the wall that broke because of the encyclopedia was seen was during "Do I know you?", in this episode the wall doesn't show any damage (and there is no damage in any previous episode). This places the encyclopedia accident at some point between Ted's engagement with Stella and this episode. Later in the episode, there is a flashback to when Robin and Ted were dating, and you can clearly see the wall being already damaged. Edit
    • When the encyclopedias and the shelf start to fall and crumble, you can actually see the brick wall push outward and shake. Edit
    • When Ted scares the couple out of the booth the woman clearly takes her cell phone with her, only for it to reappear on the table when she asks for it. Edit

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    • Originally (and subsequently) played by Victoria Williams, for this episode the role of Claudia is portrayed by Michelle Gunn. Edit
    • The German episode title is "Der alte Mann und drei Umzüge", meaning "The Old Man and Three Moves". The French title is "L'intervention", and the Italian title is "L'intervento". Edit
    • International Airdates: Australia: February 16, 2009 on Network 7; Germany: December 5, 2009 on ProSieben; United Kingdom: January 7, 2010 on E4/E4 HD; Czech Republic: October 27, 2010 on Prima COOL Edit

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    • Robin: I know your new place has had some problems with the slanted floor and the sewage treatment plant nearby, but you're going to turn it into a great home. Tell him, Lily. Lily: It's a black hole where dreams go to die. I'm not moving, either! Edit
    • Ted: My James Bond movies. Remember we watched them all in order and Lily spoke in that weird British accent for, like, a month? Lily: (British accent) It was sophisticated. Edit
    • "Old" Barney: In a few minutes, the young me from your time is going to come through that door. Now, Cindy, I know this sounds insane, but in order to save the planet, you need to sleep with him tonight. Cindy: What? I... "Old" Barney: Sleep with Barney Stinson tonight, in whatever way he wants it, or he won't be able to find the solution to global warming that saves the human race. Edit

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    • Marshall mentions John Bonham from the band Led Zeppelin and the fact that he died from an overdose. In the second episode of Freaks and Geeks, Jason Segel's character, Nick, was still distraught over his death. Edit

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